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He’s not an MP, so how can David Cameron return to the cabinet? The Guardian says To those not fully up to speed with UK politics, the idea of putting someone who retired as an MP seven years ago into a top government job might seem extremely odd. But David Cameron’s elevation to foreign secretary is not without precedent. How can Cameron be in the cabinet and not in the Commons? By being made a peer. The Downing Street announcement of Cameron’s job said that the former prime minister was immediately being made a life peer, meaning he will sit…

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David Cameron returns to Cabinet table as Rishi Sunak warned ‘prepare for war’ by Tory right The Independent says Lord David Cameron returned to Downing Street this morning for the first meeting of Rishi Sunak’s new cabinet. The Foreign Secretary and former prime minister walked inside No 10 at 9:10am and laughed after a Downing Street photographer asked him if he missed being “shouted at in the street”. Rishi Sunak has risked reigniting a Conservative civil war following his shocking cabinet reshuffle on Monday. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/david-cameron-suella-braverman-sunak-cabinet-latest-b2446793.html

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David Cameron brings experience and baggage as he returns to politics FT says Rishi Sunak has chosen as his top diplomat a man who was the accidental midwife of Brexit and then had a starring role in the biggest British lobbying scandal in recent years. David Cameron’s return to front-line politics as foreign secretary comes after seven years in the wilderness that started with his resignation as prime minister in 2016 in the wake of the Brexit referendum. The surprise comeback is an attempt by Sunak to show that he has the political backbone to shift his cabinet to the…

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‘Remain has won’: Brexiteer backlash at David Cameron return to cabinet The Independent says David Cameron’s return to the heart of government as foreign secretary has sparked a furious backlash among Tory Brexiteers. Rishi Sunak’s radical decision to appoint the former Tory PM has triggered a new row with the right of the party – especially Brexit backers. Despite advocating for Remain at the referendum he called in 2016, Mr Cameron now believes in Brexit and wants to make it “a success” for Britain, according to No 10. But Boris Johnson’s former Brexit minister Lord David Frost said the reshuffle…

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